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CONSTITUTION, BY-LAWS, 



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CIRCULAR, 



OF THE 



NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



CONSTITUTION 



BY-LAWS 



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^eto Icrsej) Jistorical ^adti^. 



THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



REVISED EDITION. 



NEWARK, N. J. 

^ PKINTED FOR THE SOCIETY AT THE DAILY ADVERTISER OFFICE. 

1854. 






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rresiderif.—llo's. .lAMpS PARKER. 

Vice Presidents. — Hon. Richard S. Field, Hon- 
Henry W. Green, JoirNi Rutherfurd, Esq. 

Corre-sponrlinr/ Secretary. — William A. White- 
head. Xcwaik. ^ 

HccordiiKj Secretary. — David A. Hayes, Newark. 

Librarian — Samuel H. Congar, Newark. 

TreHHurer — SoiiOMON Alofsen, Jersey City. 

Executive Committee — Samuel H. Pennington, 
M.D., Hon. Charles S. Olden, Rev. R. K. 
Rodgers, D.D., Peter S. Duryee, Esq., Rev. 
John Hall, D.D.. C. C. Haven, Esq., Rev. 
Samuel M. Hammell, L'^'ndon A. Smith, M.D.. 
und Hon. John Clement. 



ARCHER GIFFORD, Esq., Newark ' 

Rev. NICHOLAS MURRAY, D. D., Elizabethtown. 
Hon. DANIEL HAINES, Hamburgh. 

*' HENRY W. GREEN, Trenton. 

" WILLIAM L. DAYTON, Trenton. 
RICHARD S. FIELD, Esq., Princeton. » 
Rev. RAVAUD K. RODGERS, Bound Brook. 
Rt. Rev. GEORGE W. DOANE, D. D., LL. D., Burlington. 
Hon. ELIAS B. D. OGDEN, Paterson. 



Adopted February 27, 1845. 'tended May 27, and June 25, 1847. 



I. This Society shall be called the New Jersey 
Historical Society. 

II. The object of this Society shall be to discover, 
procure and preserve whatever relates to any depart- 
ment of the history of New Jersey — natural, civil, 
literary or ecclesiastical ; and generally of other por- 
tions of the United States. 

III. The Society shall consist of Eesident, Corres- 
ponding and Honorary Members. Resident Members 
shall be persons residing within the State of New 
Jersey ; Corresponding and Honorary Members shall 
be persons residing elsewhere : the Corresponding 
Members being natives or citizens of New Jersey ; and 
not more than twenty Honorary Members shall be 
elected in any one year. 

IV. The officers of the Society shall be a President, 
first, second, and third Vice Presidents, a Treasurer, 
Librarian, Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secre- 
tary, and an Executive Committee of nine. 

V. The duties of the several officers shall be those 
customarily assigned to such officers respectively, and 
shall be defined in the By-Laws. 



VI. Resident Members shall pay ou their admission 
three dollars, and two dollars annually thereafter ; or 
the payment of twenty dollars at any one time shall 
constitute a Life Member, and exempt the individual 
from all future annual payrn^nts : and every person 
who shall have regularly pai'H the annual fees and dues 
for twenty years successively, shall thereafter be a Life 
Meml)er. But should any Resident Member, other 
than a Life Member, fail to pay the said annual fees 
and dues for three years, or at any time refuse to pay 
the same, he shall forfeit all the privileges of member- 
ship, and his name shall be erased from the list of 
members. 

VIL The annual and regular meetings of the Society 
shall be held at such times and places as the By-Laws 
may hereafter prescribe. 

VIIL The Library and the Cabinet of the Society 
shall be located in the city of Newark, in the county of 

Essex. 

IX. All members, whether honorary, corresponding 
or resident, shall be elected by ballot. 

X. Any amendments or alterations in this Constitu- 
tion may be made by a majority of votes of those 
present at a regular meeting of the Society : Provided^ 
the same shall be reduced to writing, and entered on 
the journals of the Society at the last preceding regular 
meeting. 



^i-Jatos, 



Adopted May 7, 1845. Amended January 27, 1847, and Sept. 27, 1848. 



I. Meetixgs of tlie Society shall be held on the 
third Thursday of January, in Trenton ; on the third 
Thursday of May, in Newark ; and on such day in 
September, and at such place, as the Society may from 
time to time designate ; at which meetings addresses 
shall be delivered, or historical j^apers read, before the 
Society, by persons appointed by the Executive Com- 
mittee. At the meeting in January, the Annual Re- 
ports shall be read, and the election of officers for the 
ensuing year take place. In addition to the three 
regular meetings, the Society may hold adjourned 
meetings, for the transaction of business, not oftener 
than once in each month ; and special meetings may 
be called by the President or one of the Vice Presi- 
dents, on the application, in writing, of any five 
members. 

II. Nine members shall constitute a quorum, for the 
transaction of business, excepting when any amend- 
ment to the Constitution or By-Laws is to be acted on, 
when twenty-five must be present. 

III. The President, one of the Vice Presidents, or a 
Chairman pro tern., shall preside at all meetings of the 
Society, and shall have a casting vote. 



IV. The Kecording Secretary sliall have charge of 
the Constitution, By-Laws and Records of the Society. 
He shall keep a fair and accurate record of the pro- 
ceedings of the Society in a book to be provided for 
the purpose, and give notice to the several officers and 
to the Executive and Special Committees, of all votes, 
orders, resolves and proceedings of the Society affect- 
ing them or appertaining to their respective duties. 
He shall give notice of the time and place of all meet- 
ings of the Society, by advertisement two weeks pre- 
viously, in one newspaper printed at Newark, and in 
one printed at Trenton ; but when special meetings 
are called, three weeks notice shall be given, when 
practicable. 

V. The Corresponding Secretary shall have the 
custody of all letters and communications to the 
Society ; excepting papers read or addresses delivered 
before the same, which shall be deposited in the Li- 
brary. He shall, at every meeting, read such letters 
and communications as he may have received, and 
shall prepare all letters connected with the business or 
objects of the Society, excepting such for the prepara- 
tion of which a Special Committee may be appointed. 
He shall notify all members of their election, and of 
such other matters as he may deem necessary or be di- 
rected to communicate ; and shall keep in suitable 
books to be provided for the purpose, true copies of 
all letters written on behalf of the Society. He shall 
carefully preserve the originals of all letters and other 
communications he may receive, and from time to time 
deposit the same in the archives of the Society. 

VI. The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds 



and securities of tlie Society. He shall pay the current 
expenses, and such other sums as may be ordered by 
the Society, or by the Executive Committee. He 
shall keep a true account of his receipts and payments 
in books to be provided for the purpose, and at each 
January meeting, or oftener, if required by the Execu- 
tive Committee, render the same to the Society, duly 
audited by a Committee to be appointed for that 
purpose. 

VII. The Librarian shall have charge of all the 
books and other property of the Society, except what 
by the By-Laws is committed to the Secretaries and 
Treasurer. He shall provide, at the expense of the 
Society, under the direction of the Executive Com- 
mittee, suitable cases in which to keep all books, 
pamphlets, manuscripts, &c., which may belong to the 
Society. As far as may be, there shall be separate 
cases for the diilerent dej^artments of our history, 
natural, civil, literary and ecclesiastical. There shall 
also be a cabinet for minerals and natural curiosities, 
medals and American coins, for the safe preservation 
and suitable display of which, the Librarian shall, 
under the direction of the Standing Committee, pro- 
cure proper and convenient receptacles. He shall 
expend in the purchase of books and other articles 
whatever sums may be placed at his disposal for this 
purpose by the Society or the Executive Committee. 
He shall keep a regular alphabetical catalogue of the 
books, maps, j^amphets and manuscripts, and also of 
the natural curiosities, medals, coins, <fec. : a full 
record of all the donations to the Society, with the 
names of the donors, in a book to be provided for that 
purpose ; and shall, at the Annual Meeting, make a full 



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report to tlie Society of the condition and progress of 
the Library and collections. He shall have the power 
to employ, at a salary to be fixed by the Executive 
Committee, whenever that Committee shall deem it 
necessary, an Assistant Librarian, who shall be under 
his direction, and who, during the hours in which the 
Library is open, shall be present, whenever the Libra- 
rian himself is absent. 

VIII. For all donations of whatever kind, the thanks 
of the Society shall be transmitted to the donors, the 
particulars entered in a book to be provided for the 
purpose, and a report thereof made to the Society at 
each meeting. 

IX. It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee 
to solicit and receive donations for the Society ; to 
recommend j^lans for promoting its objects, and j^repare 
business; and to authorize the disbursement and ex- 
penditure of unappropriated moneys in the hands of 
the Treasurer, for the payment of salaries and other 
current ex]3enses. They shall, in connection with the 
Librarian, have charge of the arrangement and regula- 
tion of the Library and collections, and shall have 
authority at any time to examine into the state of the 
finances ; as also generally to superintend the interests 
of the Society. They shall execute all such duties as 
may from time to time be committed to them, and 
make a report of their proceedings to the Society at 
each January meeting. They shall choose their own 
Chairman and Secretary at their first meeting after 
their election, and the Chairman shall be authorized to 
call meetings of the Committee whenever it may be 
thought advisable ; at which, five members shall consti- 



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tute a quorum for tlie transaction of business. Tliey 
shall keep a true record of tlieir proceedings, to be 
submitted to the inspection of the Society at its regular 
meetings. 

X. At the regular meetings of the Society the fol- 
lowing shall be the order of business : 

1. Reading the minutes of the last meeting. 

2. Heading of letters or a Report by the Correspond- 
ing Secretary. 

3. Reports of the Treasurer and Librarian. 

4. Reports of Executive and other Committees. 

5. Election of members previously proposed. 

6. Nomination of new members. 

7. Miscellaneous business. 

8. Communications and addresses before the Society. 
This order of business may at any time be dispensed 

with by a majority of the members present. 

XI. The election of members shall be by ballot, from 
such names as shall have been reported upon favorably 
by a Special Committee on nominations, to which all 
applications for membership at the last preceding meet- 
ing shall have been referred. Five negative ballots to 
exclude. 

XII. Xo alteration or amendment of these By-Laws 
shall be acted on, unless proposed at the last preceding 
regular meeting, and entered upon the journal. 



Circular, 



To the Citizens of the State of I^ew Jersey : 

Fellow-Citizens - You have doubtless been informed, through the va- 
rious channels of public intelligence, that a number of the citizens of this 
State, in the month of February, 1845, formed, in the city of Trenton, an 
association under the name of "The Historical Society of New Jersey." 

The object of this Association is "to discover, procure and preserve what- 
ever relates to any department of the History of New Jersey, natural, civil, 
literary, or ecclesiastical." 

In the pursuit of this great object we are actuated by an ardent desire to 
promote the intelligence, the improvement, and the honor of our State. 

Such an institution has undoubtedly a just claim to the favorable regard 
and efficient aid of every friend to the public welfare. 

It is in the spirit of this claim that we venture with confidence to intro- 
duce our Association to the notice of our fellow-citizens in general, and ear- 
nestly to solicit the patronage and aid of the enlightened, the patriotic, and 
learned, in promoting the purpose for which it was foraaed. 

It is well known that a considerable number of our sister States have 
long'since anticipated us in the formation of societies having the same ob- 
ject as that which we now announce. Many of them have prosecuted this 
object to an extent, and with a zeal, at once honorable to themselves, and 
adapted to reflect a beneficial influence on the historical interests of our 
whole nation. 

We have reason to know that our tardiness in following their noble ex- 
ample, has been regretted by many of our fellow-citizens ; and that in tak- 
ing the steps for retrieving our delinquency to which we now call your at- 
tention, we have given sincere pleasure to a large number of the best friends 
of New Jersey. 

It cannot be doubted by any who know the history and character of our 
public men and measures for a century and a half past, that many books, 
pamphlets and manuscripts relating to the history of the State, remain in 
the possession of our citizens, who, though they would be unwilling to en- 



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trust them to a single person, would yet cheerfully confide them to a pub- 
lic institution, in whose custody they would be carefully preserved, be per- 
fectly safe, and at the same time open for the general benefit of society. 

Now it is our object to rescue such documents from the dust and darkness 
of private repositories ; to place them in circumstances where they will be, 
as far as possible, secured from the corrosions of time, and the danger of 
destruction by accidents : and deposited in a situation in which the future 
historians and annalists of our State may find them concentrated for their 
use. 

The framing of a full and satisfactory history of New Jersey is an achieve- 
men yet to be accomplished, aud such a history of our State will never be 
completed until a number of materials not yet collected shall be brought to- 
gether, and their contents compared with that patient labor and enlightened 
discrimination, which those alone can exercise who are aware of the difficul- 
ties, and know how to appreciate the true excellence of historical composi- 
tion ; drawn not from ingenious conjectures and amusing fables, but from 
original and authentic documents. 

This is a department of human effort in which almost every member of 
the community may render solid assistance. There are few individuals 
who, if they zealously devote their attention to the object, may not become 
instrumental in procuring some book, some pamphlet, some manuscript, 
some relic of antiquity, something which will serve to ascertain an import- 
ant date, to establish a contested fact, or to pour light on some obscure 
point in history. 

It will be perceived from the general title which we have assumed, as well 
as from the foregoing observations, that our plan includes the natural, and 
the literary history, as well as the civil and ecclesiastical history of our 
State. 

It is one of our objects, to collect, preserve and exhibit every thing 
adapted to develope the mineral, agricultural, and manufacturing pro- 
gress and riches of the State. As this will greatly enlarge our field of labor, 
so it will bring that field not only within the view, but, if we may so speak, 
to the very door of every inhabitant of the State, and give every citizen of 
New Jersey an interest in our institution. And as the due cultivation of 
this field from its very extent will reward the co-operation of many labor- 
ers, so it is plain that it will be in the power of every adult citizen to con- 
tribute something to our success. These things being so, it is desirable that 
all the eyes and hands in our State should be, as far as possible, set to 
work. 

With respect to our mineral wealth, we have scarcely as yet entered on 
the task of exploring its ample domains. 



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The contents of every mountain, hill, valley, river and field, ought to be 
carefully explored; and this can be done only by the agency of many 
hands ; and that these may co-operate in this last with any good efifect, 
there ought to be an organized body to act, a centre of communication to 
receive, and a convenient and safe place of deposit. These our association 
is intended to furnish. But even these, however faithfully devised, and 
amply furnished, will be unavailing, unless discerning and public spirited 
individuals will exert themselves to collect rare and valuable documents, 
relics and specimens of every kind, to accommpany them with appropriate 
descriptions, testimonials, and statements of localities, and to forward them 
to the place of accumulation. If such a spirit were widely diffused among 
our fellow-citizens, we should not labor in vain. An amount of materials 
might be cellected even in the space of a few months of a most valuable 
character, and our Association might thus be rendered a public blessing, 
beyond the mest sanguine hopes of those who have been active in its form- 
ation. 

To this eflScient co-operation in carrying out the preat purpose of our in- 
stitution, we would most respectfully and earnestly invite all our fellow- 
citizens. To every one who loves knowledge, and who would be glad to 
make the least contribution to the real improvement and honor of our State, 
we would say : turn not away with indifference from us — you can help us 
if you will ; and we feel assured that your own interest will be eventually 
promoted by every degree of patronage with which you may be pleased to 
favor us. Despise not the day of small things. The suggestions of a single 
useful thought ; the transmission of the smallest valuable pamphlet, manu- 
script or specimen : the ascertaining of a single fact, however apparently 
trivial, pertaining to our early history, may be of great value to us, and wiU 
certainly be received with gratitude by the Society. 

Jerseymen are not wont to be indifferent to that which will promote the 
interest or honor of their beloved State. Let us, then, fellow-citizens, as 
true-hearted Jerseymen, unite our exertions in this good cause. Let each 
one bring some portion of the materials, out of which to rear a beacon, from 
whose summit will shine another light to guide the future historian, who 
may record the annals of our State. 

We need scarcely say that continbutions in money will be needed, and 
will be thankfully received by our Association. It will readily recur to 
every reflecting mind, that it will be impossible to carry into effect, in any 
efficient manner, the plan of our Association, without considerable expense. 
To keep up and extend the depository for our historical treasures, manu- 
scripts, &c., calls for considerable expenditure ; but this will be a consider- 



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ation of no moment to those who consider tlie importance of the object 
which we seek, and who remember the delicate caution and care necessary 
to be exercised in regard to perishable papers and books, destined to occupy 
the same shelves for many years, perhaps for centuries together. 

As soon as the means of the Society will permit, a fire-proof building will 
be provitlcd as a permanent receptacle for all the property of the Society, 
where their collections will be as far as possible beyond the reach of the de- 
stroying influence of time or accident ; so that all persons disposed to make 
contributions to its library or cabinet, may have the strongest confidence 
that they will be securely preserved. Until this is done every regard will 
be paid to their safety and preservation. 

This circular will be accompanied with a list of interrogatories, exhibiting 
with some minuteness of detail the points of inquiry which we wish our 
friends and correspondents to pursue. We hope that every inhabitant of 
the State whose eye they may meet, will consider them as adapted to him- 
self in particular, and will lose no time in transmitting every thing, how- 
ever apparently trivial, which may come to his knowledge and possession, 
and which falls in with the scope of our Association. 

Communications may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary, and 
donations made to any of the officers. 



Interrogatories as to those points on which the Historical Society of New 
Jersey request particular information: 

1. Can you give any information, however minute, concerning the origin, 
original name and settlement of any of the cities and towns in this State, 
particularly of your own township or district, and the number, names and 
condition of the first colonists ? or do you know any thing especially re- 
markable in their history, at any particular period : or can you inform us 
where such information may be obtained ? 

2. Do you possess, or can you put us in the way of obtaining any docu- 
ments which throw light on the first organization of civil government in 
your part of the State, or in any other part ; or which will furnish authen- 
tic information concerning the names, general characters, powers, conduct, 
salaries, &c., of the principal oflBcers appointed at different times from the 
earliest periods ? 

3. Can you furnish any information concerning any Indian tribes, which 
formerly inhabited any part of what is now the State of New Jersey ; their 
numbers, names, and condition when first visited by the whites ; their 



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trades, disputes, wars, and treaties, cither among themselves or with the 
white people ; their character, customs, and general history, or when they 
finally disappeared from the country ; or give any account of the adventures 
of captives, travelers, or voyages among them ? 

4. What were the Indian names of the mountains, valleys, rivers, capes, 
springs, caverns, or other remarkable places in your neighborhood!? and 
what do well informed people suppose to be the original unport of their 

names ? 

5. Can you furnish any laws, journals, copies of records, and proceedings 
of congresses, legislatures, general assemblies, conventions, treaties or nego- 
tiations of any kind, with any Indian tribes, or with any state or nation ? 

6. Can you furnish copies of .any orations, essays, sermons, discourses, 
poems or tracts, dehvered, written and published on any pubUc occasion, or 
which concern any public transaction, or remarkable character or event ? 

7. Can you furnish copies of any magazines, reviews, newspapers, or 
other periodical publications, particularly such as appeared prior to the year 
1782, or give information where they can be obtained ! 

8. Can you furnish any Statistical Talks of agricultural productions, the 
births, deaths, diseases, meteorological observations, or facts relating to cli- 
mate or remarkable seasons, in any part of _our country, either remote or 
recent ; or accounts of any remarkable diseases ? 

9. Are you possessed, or do you know of any documents, printed or man- 
uscript, relating to any Territorial disputes or arrangements, between New 
Jersey and any other colony or state. 

10. Can you furnish any copies of proceedings, either printed or manu- 
script, of any presbyteries, s^mods, general assemplies, conventions, or other 
ecclesiastical bodies of any denomination of Christians? 

11. Do you know of any narratives of missionaries, or proceedings of any 
missionary societies in New Jersey, or carried on by citizens of the State or 
Colony of New Jersey ? 

12. What is the age of the Church or congregation to which you belong? 
When was it first organized, and by whom ? When was your house of 
worship built ? What changes has it undergone since ? What have been 
the names, the characters, ane the respective lengths of the ministry of 
your ministers or pastors ? Did their ministry terminate among you by 
death or otherwise ? 

13. Can you furnish any biographical sketches, memoirs, or notices of 
any kind, of eminent Jerscymen — clergymen, lawyers, physicians, judges, 
legislators, or public benefactors of any class ? 

14. Can you furnish an unbroken list ^of all the clerks, sheriffs, and sur- 
rogates of your county ? 



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15. When was your present court-house, and other county buildings 
erected, and where did your courts meet from the cariiest period. 

16. Can you furnish any topographical description, or maps of cities, 
towns, or other remarkable places, exhibiting their condition and aspect, at 
different periods, and relating in anywise to the progressive geography of 
our State ? 

17. Have you ever heard of any papers, or other documents, of historical 
or local interest, in the possession of any individuals in your neighborhood 
or elsewhere ? If so, can you mention the names of such individuals, or 
suggest the means of obtaining them ? 

18. Do you know any instances of remarkable longevity in your part of 
this State ? or have you ever heard of any still more remarkable, of which 
you can give or obtain authentic information ? 

19. What public hbraries have you in the town or city where you live? 
When were they founded ? How many volumes do they contain ? And 
who had the chief agency in founding them ? 

20. What were the first articles manufactured in your neighborhood, and 
when ? What facts can you furnish respecting the character and progress 
of manufactures since that time ? 

21. What information do you possess concerning the state of the militia, 
in any part of New Jersey, at different times, especially at early periods ; 
their numbers, organization, mode of equipment, &c. ? 

22. Can you give any information respecting, the rise, progress and pres- 
ent state of the colleges and academies in our State ; the individuals chiefly 
active in forming tbcm ; the names of the presidents, professors and trus- 
tees ; the number of their students and graduates at different times, and the 
amount of their endowments and revenues ? 

23. Can you give any information concerning the discovery and working 
of mines in any part of the State ; the commencement of the manufacture 
of iron ; the use of coal ; the establishment of navigation by steam in any 
of our waters, &c. ? 

24. Can you furnish any interesting facts in regard to the discovery and 
appUcation of marl ? or of deposits found therein ? 

25. Can you furnish any facts or documents concerning the conveniences 
for traveling in early periods of our State's history ? The progressive im- 
provements in roads, and other modes of communication between different 
places? The names of the most prominent actors in suggesting and con- 
structing the various turnpike roads, canals and railroads in the State ? or 
any remarkable facts in their history, from their construction to the present 
day? i 



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26. When and by wliom was the first newspajier or periodical printed in 
your town or county, and what was its character ? Are any of the numbers 
in existence, and if so, can they be had ? and furnish us with the history in 
your county. 

27. What attention did the early settlers in your part of the State pay to 
the education of their children ? or do you know anything of the character, 
qualifications, or labors of any school teachers at that early period ? What 
was the origin of the common school system in this State, or in any part of 
it? Who, at different times, chiefly promoted it? What alterations have 
taken place in the system at different times, and what amount of revenue 
has been devoted to the system at different periods ? 

28. Can you communicate any facts which will throw light on the state 
of commerce in any particular part of New Jersey at different times, and 
especially at early periods ? Hha manlier of ships belonging to particular 
ports ; the exports and imports for a series of years ; the principal articles 
imported and exported, and from whence brought ? 

29. Will you have the goodness, in making any communications to our 
depository, to inform us as minutely as you can, concerning the names, 
characters and localities connected with your communications, and very 
carefully to impart your own name, residence, &c., so that a due acknowl- 
edgement may be recorded on the books of the Society ? 



PUBLICATIONS 

OF THE 

NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



"COLLECTIONS, VOL. L." containing "Bast Jersey under the Provincial Govern- 
ments; a Narrative of Events connected wi;h the Settlement and Progress of the 
Province, until the Surrender of the Government to the Crown in 1702. Drawn 
principally from Original Sources : by William A. Whitehead. With ao Appen- 
dix, containing a Model of the Government of East New Jc-sey, by George Scot, 
of Pitlochie, now tirst re-printed from the original edition of 1685. 8vo., pp. 842 
— XV., with Maps and Plates. $2. 

♦'COLLECTIONS. VOL II.," containing "The Life of William Alexander, Earl of 
Sdrling. Major-General in the Army of the United States during the Revolution: 
with selections from hi^ Correspondence, by his Grandson, William Alexandeb 
DuBR, LL. D." 8vo., pp. 284, with Portrait and Maps. $1. 

" COLLECTIONS, VOL III ," containing " The Provincial Courts of New Jersey, 
with Sketches of the Bench and Bar, oy Richard S. Field." 8vo., pp. 324. $1. 

« COLLECTIONS, VOL. IV." The Papers of Lewis Morris, Governor of the Province 
of New Jersey from 1733 to 1746. With Portrait. 8vo., pp. 336— xxx. $2. 



"PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY," 

Ptihlished in numbers^ at $1 per volume, comprising four numbers, 

VOL. L contains — Proceedings of Meetings at Trenton to organize the Society, Jan- 
uary and February, 1845. Proceedings at Newark, May 7th, 184.''> —Discourse by 
Charles King, Esq. Proceedings at Trenton, September 4th, 1845.— Journal of 
Cap*. John Schuyler, on an Expedition to Canada, in August, 1690. — Three Let- 
ters from Rev. Samuel Davies, President of Princeton College, 1759-60. — Address 
bv Rev. Samuel Mil'er, D. D. Proceedings at New Brunswick, Nov. Otb, 1845. — 
Three letters from Governor Franklin to bis Father, June and October, 1767, and 
May, 1759. — Letter from William Strahan, London, 1766. Proceedings at Tren- 
ton, January 15th, 1846. — Letter from Lord Cornbury to the Inhabitants of Ber- 
gen, 1706. Proceedings at Burlington, May 7th, 1846 —Letter from William 
Dockwra, Proprietaries' Register, to Governor Andrew Hamilton, April Ist, 1093. 
— An Account of a Journey in the Southern States in 1781, by Abel Thomas. — An 
Account of the capture and death of the refugee John Bacon, by George F. Fort, 
M. D. — Extracts from a Paper on the Di; covery and Settlement of Monmouth 
Countv, by Rev. A. A. Marcellu*. Proceedings at Salem, September 3d, 1846.— 
Corrections of errors in Mr. King's Discourse. — Exports of Salem County. — 
Criminal Statistics of Essex County. — Proceedings of the Committees of Free- 
hold and Shrewsbury, on the opening of the Revolution. — Index. 

VOL II, contains — Proceedings of Society at Elizabethtown, November 5th, 1846. — 
Proceedings of the Government of New York, December, 1675, to December, 
1678, in relation to the settlement and jurisdiction of Major John Fenwick in 



West Jersey.— Journal of Lieut. 'William Barton, durinar Sullivan's Expedition 
against the Indians, in 17 r J. — Extracts from Journal of Doctor Ebenezer Elmer, 
during: the game Expedition. Proceedmg-» at Trenton, January Ist, ISi". — Second 
Annual Addres?, by Hon. Joseph C. Hornblower, LL. D., President of the Society. 
Proceedings at Newark, May STth, 1847.— Diary of Events in Charleston, S. C , 
from March 'JOth to April iiOth, 17S0, during the Siege bv the British ; hy Samuel 
lialdwin. Proceedinss at New Hrunswick, June :3.5tb, l«-t7. — Journal of an Kxpe- 
diton to Canada in 177»), by Lieut. Ebenezer Elmer, of the New Jentiey Forces. 
Proceedings at Freehold, September 10' h, 1847. — Letter from Richard Stockton to 
Robert Ogden, about public affairs, 1705. — Index. 

VOL. III. contains— Proceedings of the Society at Trenton, January 20tb, 184S. — Letter 
from James Logan to Colonel Cox, June, 17111, relative to the dividing line of 
East and West Jersey. — Jovirnal of Lieut. Ebenezer Elmer, (continued from Vol. 
II.) Proceedings at Newark, May ^i.'>th, 184S. —Letter from David Ojrden, Feb- 
ruary 'iOth, 1707, to the Claimants under Indian Purchase.". — Memoir of Rev. 
James Caldwell, by Rev. Nicholas Murray, D. D. — Extract from a Diary of Mr. 
Jacob Spicer, 17.")7. — A Brief Account of tb« Swedish Mission in R:icoon and 
Penn's Neck, by Rev. Nicholas Collin, D I), Proceedings at Princeton, September 
27th. IS4S. — A Biographical Sketch of Governor William Franklin, by VVilliam 
A. Whitehead. Proceedings at Trenton, January IStb, 1849. — Letter from Gov- 
ernor Franklin to his Father, Decpmber 24tb, 1774. — Journal of Major William 
Gould duriug an Expedition into Pennsylvania, 1794.— Index. 

VOL. IV. contains— Proceedings of meeting at Newark, May 17th, 1849.— Memoir of 
Governor Lewis Morris, by Rev Robert Davidson, D. D. — Census of Northamp- 
ton, Burlington County, 170U. — List of Judges, Clerks, Sherift's. Surrogates and 
Atto'neys of Salem County, from the settlement. — Memoir of John Fenwick, 
Chief Proprietor of Salem Tenth, by Robert G. Johnson. — Letters from William 
Strahan to David Hall, describing the trial of John Wilkes. Proceedings of 
meeting at Freehold, September, 1349. — Stateof Religion in the Provinces of East 
and West. Jersey in 1700. — The Bittle of Monmouth Court House, by Charles 
King, Esq. — Letters from Wm. Peartree Siiith, to Elias B uidinot. Pr)ceedint;8 
of meetiug at Trenton, January 17th, 1S.;0.— Letter from Rev. Uzal Ogden, Mis- 
sionary to Su<isex county, July, 1771.— Leas^ for a year from Dime Elizibe'h Car- 
teret, to the Twelve Proprietors, for East Jersey.— The Aborigines of New Jersey, 
by Archer Gilford, Esq.— Index. 

VOL V. contains- Proceedings of meeting at Newark, May lOth, IS.'iO. — Letter of 
Mi.jnr General Baron Steuben to Olficers of the New Jersey Line, July lutb, 1793. 
— Tables of the Sittings of the Provincial Assemblies, and names of members. — 
Orders of Generals Schuylpr and Sullivan to Colonel Jonathan Davton, 1770. 
Proceedings of meeting at Morristown, September 12th, 1'850. — The Robbery of 
the Treasury in 1768 ; bv W. A. Whitehead. — The Hollanders in New Jersey, by 
Rev Abraham Messier, D. D. Proceedings of meeting at Trenton, January -iod, 
1851. — The American Union, and the Perils to which it has been exposed ; by J. 
P. Bradley, E^q. — Letters of Joseph Sherwood, Provincial Agent. Proceedings 
of mee'ing at Newark, May 1.3th, 1851. — Letter from Mijor F. Barber, 1776. — 
Letter from Joseph Shippan, jun., MM. — Sjlections from Correspondence of 
Williim Alexander, Earl of Stirling. — Index. 

VOL. VI. contains— Proceedings of meeting at Somerville, September 11th, 1851. — 
Letter from Robert -Morris, 1781.— Journal of Andrew Bell, Secretary of General 
Clinton, kept during the march rf the British Army through New Jersey, in 
1778.— Inquiry into the location of Mount Ployden, by Rev. George C. Schanck. 
—Review of the trial of the Rev. William Tennent, in 1742, by Richard S. Field. 
— Selections from Correspondence of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, in 175,5. 
Proceedings of meeting at Trenton, January l;jth, 1852.- Selections from Corres- 
pondence of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, in 1755 Proceedings of meet- 
ing at Newark, May 20th, 1852.- The Uses and Benefits of Historical Societies: 
by Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, LL. D.— Selections from Correspondence of 
William Alexander, Eayl of Stirling, in 1755. Proceedings of meeting at New 
Brunswick, September 8th, 1852.— Description of site of Fort Nassau on the Del- 
aware: by Edward Armstrong.-The Pennsylvania Insurrection of 1794; by Rev. 
James Carnahan, D. D. Proceedings of meeting at Trenton, January 15th, 1853. 
—Report of Corresponding Secretary on the Belcher Papers.— Report of Com- 
mitte authorized to examine supposed site of Fort Nassau.— The Discovery of the 
Northmen: by Charles C- Rafn Secretary of the Society of Northern Antiqua- 
ries — The History and Location of Fort Nassau on the Delaware : by Edward 
Armstrong. — Index. 



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